MOFF in Milbridge

Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026
Doors: 6:30PM Films: 7:00PM
Admission: Suggested donation of $10 (to support Downeast Coastal Conservancy and the Milbridge Theatre)
Presented by: Downeast Coastal Conservancy
Location: Milbridge Theatre, 26 Main St, Milbridge, ME 04658
Parking Info: Parking is limited at the Theatre. Parking for MOFF can be found across the street at Camden National Bank, or at Bayside Shop N’ Save.
Food/Beverage: Milbridge Theatre has beer/wine for purchase, as well as non-alcoholic drinks, snacks, popcorn, and more!
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*Film Program To Be Announced in Early June*

LOBSTER QUEEN | 23.6 minutes | by Alix Buck | from: Canada | Short synopsis: They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She’s spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire.But Gail’s convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.
THE HIVE ARCHITECT | 12.07 minutes | by Max Weston | from: United Kingdom | Short synopsis: For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non-intervention habitats for wild honey bees.
AN OPTIMIST | 10.25 minutes | by Allison Silverstein | from: Maine | Short synopsis: Maine is both a climate haven and home to one of the fastest warming bodies of water on the planet. An Optimist. follows Mike, a climate scientist working to keep his chin up and passion alive to keep producing the data we need to track climate change from the bays of Maine.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLASTIC: ABBY BARROWS | 18.43 minutes | by Andrew Lynch, Ben Ayers, Rush Sturges | from: United Kingdom | Short synopsis: On Deer Isle, Maine, home to one of the world’s most productive lobster ports, warming waters and invisible microplastic pollution threaten a centuries-old way of life. As veteran lobsterman Joel Billings and his daughter Hannah reckon with the possible end of their family’s tradition, neighbor and microplastics researcher Abby Barrows offers a vision for a more sustainable future through plastic-free aquaculture.
CIRRUS: A WOODEN BOAT STORY | 16.1 minutes | by Kenneth Murphy, Durier Ryan | from: United States | Maine Premiere | Short synopsis: A celebrated, 90-year-old wooden boat sails again. Told through the voices of those who admired, sailed, and later rescued her — and featuring archival 16mm film from her heyday in 1930s coastal Maine — CIRRUS: A Wooden Boat Story reaches across generations to share an intimate tale of maritime craftsmanship and preservation.
THE PROVING GROUND | 14.15 minutes | by Josh Bogardus, Dan Dunn | from: United States | Short synopsis: Every ski season, Mount Washington sees an average of 25 life-threatening sliding falls. The Proving Ground is a short film from Warden Co., produced in partnership with the Mt. Washington Avalanche Center Foundation, exploring the dangers of recreating on the mountain that go beyond avalanche risk alone – told through the stories of those who have survived, and those who tragically have not.